Buggers host Bucknell
Dolphin provides
* By GEORGE WEIGEL
Collegian Sports Writer
Penn State’s rugby team will get a
chance to avenge last spring’s two losses
to the Bucknell Rugby Club tomorrow
afternoon when the Lewisburg side
comes to University Park.
L‘‘We’re expecting a tough game from
Bucknell,” outside center Jim Dolphin
said yesterday. “They always have a
pretty good team but I heard they lost a
lot through graduation since last
spring.”
Dolphin, who scored trys last
Saturday in Penn State’s 34-0 win over
W&st Virginia, has been the heart of the
ruggers’ offense so far this season.
“He’s a good, all-around educated
rugby player,” coach John Lesko said.
“You can just give the ball to him and
let him run. He doesn’t make many
mistakes."
dolphin began playing rugby in 1969 at
St. Joseph’s College in Philadelphia.
Harriers travel to West Virginia
By BILL KLINE
Collegian Sports Writer
'The seemingly loneliest of sports, long-distance running,
entails a daily training ritual of long hours of solitary road
work. Often, the cross country runner’s only companions are
passing cars, falling leaves and sidewalk cracks.
Lonesome may be the word for a runner’s practice, but if a
cross country team wants to win its share of the real
tiling— dual meets—running in groups is the only way to go.
“The key to winning the important meets would be to have
four strong guys coming in together,” says Penn State harrier
Bruce Baden.
»
’ Baden, who was part of a three-man cluster of Lions last
Saturday that finished 2,4 and 5 as Penn State demolished
VUlanova, hopes grouping can again aid the Lions tomorrow
n'Srning when they run in Morgantown against West Virginia.
According to Baden, running in a group gives support to its
runners. “If some guy is hurting, he’ll want to hang on.”
But Baden also says. grouping can have a negative
psychological effect on the opponents. “You look like a strong
team when you stay together like that,” the junior says.
lichigan, who beat the Lions last year in the Central
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After he graduated from there in 1973
with a degree in history, the
Collingswood, N.J. native played wing
for a year with the South Jersey Rugby
Club.
One surprising thing about Dolphin is
that rugby.is the only sport he ever
‘played. Being slapped together pretty
good (6’o”, 190 lbs.) with outstanding
speed, Dolphin has the raw abilities to
excel at almost any sport.
“Well, for one thing, I only weighed
about 130 or 140 pounds in high school,”
he said. “But the nice thing about rugby
is its informality. There’s no coach
standing over you all the time telling you
to run laps or do push-ups.”
He also likes the drinking part
associated with the game.
In his 15 seasons of rugby, Dolphin has
picked up some souvenirs of the
game—such as two broken shoulders, a
broken clavicle, torn cartilage in his
knee, a dislocated finger, and the usual
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set of rugby cuts and bruises.
“I still have trouble opening cans
because of my finger,” he said, showing
his right index finger which is bent
siighttly backwards, kind* of like a
banana.
Teammate A 1 Ashton called Dolphin
“one of the best individual runners” he’s
seen.
“He’s hard to bring down because of
his upper-body strength,” Ashton said.
“You can’t tackle him high.”
Bucknell will have to deal with
Dolphin and the rest of the Penn State
ruggers at 1 p.m. tomorrow.
Three sides of rugby are planned and
the games will go rain or shine. The field
is located behind the flower gardens
across from East Halls.
Collegiate championships, “has a tean that has seven or eight
guys running together,’-’ says Baden. ‘“lt’s powerful.”
The Lions may be the perfect team to utilize grouping. They
lost record-breaking Paul Stemmer to graduation, although
retaining nationally ranked .senior George Malley, who fills
the number one position.
But behind Malley' are a host of potential groupies.
“We have good depth,” Baden says. “We have a good solid
group of seven guys, or hope to have.” In addition to Baden,
they are Walt Majak, Bob Snyder, Greg Stremmel, John
Ziegler, Fred Cooper, and'Ray Kromel. ,
Against Villanova, Baden, Stremmel, and Snyder broke
from a pack of five Wildcats at about the three-mile mark of
the Lions’ five-mile course.
“We had to make a move because they had five guys with
us,” says Baden. “Even more importantly, only one Wildcat
went with them, and Penn State clinched its season opener.
West Virginia, meanwhile, “lost a couple of its top runners
from last year,” says Baden, and may not be as good as then.
Obviously, the Mountaineers could see a strong dose of
grouping. If they don’t receive it, they may get lonely.
- After all, you can’t talk to passing cars, falling leaves and
sidewalk cracks.
ing it again . ..
offense
Besides his speed and strength, Dol
phin posssesses two other important
assets, Lesko said. He’s a smart player,
and he seems to have a “sixth sense”
for the game, he added.
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